Brunswick County sheriff’s deputies arrested 36-year-old Ronald Thomas Sessions and his wife, 38-year-old Holly Lane Sessions, of Bell Swamp Road on Sept. 4 and charged each with possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, maintaining a dwelling for a controlled substance, two counts of trafficking in marijuana, misdemeanor marijuana paraphernalia and child abuse.

"Please don’t put me in a nursing home” is a sentiment I hear often from my senior clients. Many people seem to equate nursing homes with captivity and the end of all freedom. Realistically, though, as we live longer than our predecessors, often with various disabilities and debilitating health problems, nursing homes will eventually become the only option for many of us.

A Southport man is accused of breaking into a Supply home, stealing items and assaulting a woman there.

Brunswick County sheriff’s deputies arrested Ronnie Daniel Suggs, 39, of Pine Lake Road on Sept. 4 and charged him with breaking or entering, larceny from the person, assault by strangulation and second-degree kidnapping.

Warrants show Suggs broke into a home in the 2000 block of Kirby Road, stole cologne, two EA cell phones, pens, pencils, clothing, cash, a motor vehicle key, a knife and three EA cigarette lighters and strangled the woman Sept. 3.

Brunswick County commissioner Pat Sykes has been appointed to serve as Homeland Security Subcommittee vice chairwoman for the National Association of Counties (NACo) Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee and a member of the NACo Immigration Reform Task Force and Military Services Committee.

Sykes previously was named a member of the NACo Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee, the Veterans Military Services Committee and the Immigration Reform Task Force in 2016.

Tethering, called by another word, is torture. The act of having a rope, a chain or another object tightly wound around the neck of an animal day after day, year after year, never getting a break from this existence … you certainly can’t refer to this as a life because it is not.

If you cannot treat an animal humanely, then you should not be able to have one at all. If we decide to own a dog, then we have the responsibility to treat them with love and tenderness as we would treat any member of our family.